Man Sought In Holdup Of Forestville Bank

BRISTOL — A man robbed the Bank of America branch in Forestville on Tuesday afternoon, the fourth bank robbery in the city this year.

Nobody was hurt and the man escaped, police reported.

The man walked into the bank at 26 E. Main St. around 4 p.m. and handed a teller a note that demanded money and implied he had a weapon, according to Lt. Thomas Grimaldi.

The teller complied, and the man walked out with the cash. Police are not disclosing how much was taken.

Once the bank reported the robbery, patrol officers arrived to search the area aided by a state police search dog. They found no suspect, and police did not say whether the search turned up any evidence.

Police described the robber as a white man in his mid-30s with a mustache and an unshaven face. He was wearing a blue denim button-down, long-sleeved shirt, a white T-shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap, according to police.

Anyone who saw something unusual in that part of the city Tuesday afternoon should contact police at 860-584-3000, Grimaldi said.

In mid-March, a man robbed the Webster Bank at Forestville Commons by giving a note to a teller demanding money.

The Bank of America branch on North Street was targeted by a knife-wielding man in late June. Nobody was hurt in that robbery, and a suspect was arrested later in the summer after a string of similar robberies in other central Connecticut communities.

More recently, a man robbed the Farmington Savings Bank on Broad Street on July 25 after demanding cash from a teller. Several customers and employees were in the bank, but did not know that it was being robbed, police said.